Funny you mentioned this. I watched and paused several times on the same thing. I even went in to the database's to see if anyone was a ham or not. I could not find anything. Thought maybe Bear was a ham?
It would have been nice to hear the odd call sign. --- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just got a kick out of watching the Discovery Channel "Everest 2" show > tonight. > > First spotted frequency was a Kenwood rig, 145.25 simplex. > > Also watched the Japanese team keying up a Yaesu with that #@(*&@#% > WIRES button activated, and a DTMF tone going out on the beginning of > every transmission... on simplex. > > They were utterly clueless that they had it activated (just like > repeater users around here!) and that it was cutting off the beginning > of their transmissions. > > No callsigns heard, ever... of course. > > Good thing there's no CATV systems anywhere near Everest, eh? ;-) > > Nate WY0X >
